My 8 hours in New York went much faster than I imagined. The first hour was spent trying to get myself to the correct terminal -- the only airport I've got off a plane and had to exit to go back through security! And then you could only reach the correct terminal by a monorail, and of course one of them was down, so it took forever and a day. To make it worse, I misunderstood the "approaching" and "arriving" messages and missed my terminal, and had to ride all th...

I'm ready for departure! While a 6:00AM flight wasn't exactly ideal because it meant a sleepless night and leaving for the airport at 2:00 in the morning, I have arrived and am ready to go. Since my flight is through two different airlines, neither one would let me check in online and told me to arrive to the airport early to speak to an attendant. So, instead of arriving 2 hours prior to flight departure as is normal for a domestic flight (my first leg is to Ne...